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An artist has buried £10,000 in gold bars in the shores of Folkestone. It suggests a normalisation of wealth disparity

Oh, those wacky conceptual artists. What are they like? Apparently, 35-year-old Bavarian-born Michael Sailstorfer has buried £10,000 worth of gold bars in the shores of Folkestone, Kent, in the hope that keen-eyed treasure hunters will find them and keep them or, at a value of roughly £330 each, cash them in.

This “piece”, as Sailstorfer describes it, was announced at lunchtime on Thursday. By 6pm that evening roughly 200 shovel-wielding enthusiasts were already churning through the wet sands in the hope of a minor windfall. (The sands have also allegedly been sprinkled with steel washers to deter metal-detector cheats. Oh